Biomimetics: process, tools and practice

Fayemi, Pierre-Emmanuel; Wanieck, Kristina; Zollfrank, Cordt; Maranzana, Nicolas; Aoussat, Améziane

doi:10.1088/1748-3190/12/1/011002

Cited by 141 publications

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“…The results of this research have led to a framework of the usage of tools. 92 Furthermore, ongoing research will help to assess the value of tools for certain problems, contexts and desired aims of the process -for instance, the aim for a functional optimisation of products or for a more sustainable product development. The following research questions will be addressed in the future.…”

Section: Use Of Tools In Practice and Outlookmentioning

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Biomimetics and its tools

Wanieck

Fayemi

Maranzana

et al. 2017

Bioinspired, Biomimetic and Nanobiomaterials

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Biomimetics, as the transfer of strategies from biology to technology, is an emerging research area and has led to significant concepts over the past decades. The development of such concepts is described by the process of biomimetics, encompassing several steps. In Practice, beneficiaries of the process face challenges. Therefore, to overcome challenges and to facilitate the steps, tools have been developed in various areas, such as engineering, computing and design. However, these tools are not widely used yet. This paper presents an overview and a classification study of more than 40 tools with qualitative criteria. The criteria included, for example, the year of development, the accessibility of tools, the facilitated steps of the process or their contribution to sustainability. The classification shows that certain steps of the process and their challenges are well addressed by the tools, while other steps are not. The presented results contribute to the proposal of an improvement of the state of the art, and they build the foundation for future theoretical and practical analyses. These findings could contribute to increasing the implementation of biomimetics in various disciplines in the long term.

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Section: Use Of Tools In Practice and Outlookmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biomimetics and its tools

Wanieck

Fayemi

Maranzana

et al. 2017

Bioinspired, Biomimetic and Nanobiomaterials

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“…Compared with the solution-driven process, the problem-driven process is much more similar to the conceptual design process. With successive development [89], an eight-stage unified problem-driven biomimetics process is proposed to represent a highly systemic and practical BID process as discussed in Fig. 4(c).…”

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Creative design inspired by biological knowledge: Technologies and methods

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Biological knowledge is becoming an important source of inspiration for developing creative solutions to engineering design problems and even has a huge potential in formulating ideas that can help firms compete successfully in a dynamic market. To identify the technologies and methods that can facilitate the development of biologically inspired creative designs, this research briefly reviews the existing biological-knowledge-based theories and methods and examines the application of biological-knowledge-inspired designs in various fields. Afterward, this research thoroughly examines the four dimensions of key technologies that underlie the biologically inspired design (BID) process. This research then discusses the future development trends of the BID process before presenting the conclusions.

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“…A recent review [8] identified The functional approach has long been a key central concept to the practice of biomimicry and has been identified as a solution to overcome the difficulties of its interdisciplinary nature. A recent review of biomimetic tools and processes identified several models of the problem-driven approach and correlated them with the general problem-solving process of Massay & Wallace 1956 [13], commonly used in engineering and design [12]. Of the 12 biomimetic processes identified, half clearly state a functional step referred to as either function identification and definition [14][15][16], functional keyword searches [17,18] or functional modeling [19].…”

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“…Illustration of the traditional problem-driven biomimicry design process and steps that selected tools facilitate. E2B Thesaurus (Step 2 and 3) and BioMimetic Ontology (Step 2 to 7)[12].…”

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E2BMO: Facilitating User Interaction with a BioMimetic Ontology via Semantic Translation and Interface Design

McInerney

Khakipoor

Garner

et al. 2018

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Function is a key central concept to the practice of biomimicry. Many published models of the biomimicry process include steps to identify, understand, and translate function of biological systems. Examples include functional modeling, decomposition, or abstraction with tools specifically designed to facilitate such steps. A functional approach to biomimicry yields a semantic bridge between biology and engineering, enabling practitioners from a variety of backgrounds to more easily communicate and collaborate in a biomimicry design process. Although analysis of function is likely a necessary part of biomimicry design, recent work suggests it is not sufficient without a more systematic understanding of the complex biological context in which a function exists (e.g., scale and trade-offs). Consequently, emerging tools such as ontologies are being developed that attempt to capture the intricacies of biological systems (including functions), such as their complex environmental and behavioral interactions. However, due to the complexity of such tools, they may be under-utilized. Here, we propose a solution through a computer-aided user interface tool which integrates a biomimetic ontology with a thesaurus-based functional approach to biomimicry. Through a proof of concept illustrative case study, we demonstrate how merging existing tools can facilitate the biomimicry process in a systematic and collaborative way, broadening solution discovery. This work offers an approach to making existing tools, specifically the BioMimetic Ontology, more accessible and encompassing of different perspectives via semantic translation and interface design. This provides the user with the opportunity to interface and extract information from both the Engineering-to-Biology Thesaurus and the BioMimetic Ontology in a way that was not possible before. The proposed E2BMO tool not only increases the accessibility of the BioMimetic Ontology, which ultimately aims to streamline engineers' interaction with the bio-inspired design process, but also provides an option for practitioners to traverse biological knowledge along the way, encouraging greater interdisciplinary collaboration and consideration when conducting biomimicry research.

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Biomimetics: process, tools and practice

Cited by 141 publications

References 56 publications

Biomimetics and its tools

Biomimetics and its tools

Creative design inspired by biological knowledge: Technologies and methods

E2BMO: Facilitating User Interaction with a BioMimetic Ontology via Semantic Translation and Interface Design

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